Senior Quality Advisor

United Living Group; Golborne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the construction sector is seeking a Senior Quality Advisor to oversee QA and QC processes on various projects across the UK. The role involves ensuring compliance with quality standards, providing guidance to project teams, and leading internal quality audits. Candidates should possess a minimum of three years in a quality-focused role, ideally in civil engineering, along with a solid understanding of relevant quality standards and practices. A full UK Driving Licence is essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years’ experience in a quality-based role, ideally in civil engineering.
• Experience with ISO quality standards such as ISO 9001, 14001, 45001.
• Full UK Driving Licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for quality on construction projects; ensures compliance with quality standards.
• Leads quality audits and incident investigations, providing corrective actions.
• Prepares quality management plans with project managers.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Communication

Organizational skills

Job description

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The Senior Quality Advisor is responsible for providing QA and QC support to all areas of the business across several locations in the UK. Including construction delivery, proposals, procurement, and business services; advising the sites to maintain and improve their processes and facilitate continuous improvement.

Job Description

• Responsible for Quality related matters on Construction Projects
• Reports to the QA Manager on progress and issues with Project quality.
• Provide QA Advice to the Project Team
• Ensures that Project requirements for quality standards are identified, communicated to all relevant parties, and monitored.
• Attends, when required, project progress meetings to discuss problems affecting quality and for ensuring that action programmes are agreed and implemented.
• Prepare, in conjunction with the Project Manager, the project specific QMP and ITP, ensuring that client acceptance is obtained.
• Audit construction activities for compliance with procedure / quality plan.
• Review and assist the compilation of the quality section for handover documentation, monitoring progress through to final client acceptance.
• Monitoring quality related issues, determining root causes and corrective actions determining where improvements to practice are required.
• Lead and / or support on internal projects as required, in accordance with agreed working practices, appraising the relevant risks, processes and controls to identify opportunities for improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of Quality.
• Undertake internal and external quality audits at all stages of the delivery process including at supply chain sites such as FAT’s.
• Lead Quality incident investigation, reporting, development of corrective actions and track their completion
• To comply with health and safety legislation, policies and procedures in the performance of the duties of the post
• Composing technical documents and procedures for review by the QA manager and Head of Engineering

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years’ work experience in a quality-based role (Ideally in a civil engineering environment) other regulated sectors are also considered applicable.
• Experience with codes of practice for quality such as ISO 9001, 14001, 45001
• Experience with the NCR process
• Root cause analysis (8D, 5 Why, Fishbone) experience is desirable but not essential.
• Ability to discuss complex quality issues and with key stakeholders, with the ability to persuade and influence outcomes
• Good timekeeper
• Responsible, conscientious, punctual, highly organised, self-motivated and able to work under pressure, both on own initiative and as part of a busy team.
• A full UK Driving Licence is essential.

Additional Information

• Takes responsibility for decision-making, with autonomy and within the guidelines of the work instruction, for their workplace, and for their productivity. Ability to work well with others
• Enquires and seeks guidance, in order to understand the processes and associated industrial applications.
• Consistently and reliably deliver expectations in safety, production, quality, ethics and self-development
• Follows the specified procedures and controls and be personally responsible and accountable for their production work and personal development
• Committed to Equality and Diversity

Reflect on current and past performance and provide information and recommendations for continuous improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of working practices, and training and development requirements